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Entire Internet Calls Bullshit as Peter Bart Goes to War For 'Valkyrie'
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 8:30 AM on June 5, 2008
An insomniac browse last night at PeterBart.com revealed that the Variety editor's spirited studio defences have made a remarkably speedy, seamless transition to the blogosphere. Readers seem to be enjoying it as well, alleging stolen stories about DreamWorks on one hand and launching a fascist-tastic comment cascade following Bart's breaking! News! about production resuming on Valkyrie
Although the film has yet to be completed, several people I trust have seen Valkyrie and testify that it's a superb thriller. "Bryan Singer is back in form," says one source, referring to the Valkyrie director whose last film was Superman Returns.
Cruise will be shooting three scenes in North Africa within the next three weeks. In one, his character, Col. Claus Von Stauffenberg, is badly injured but survives, a key moment in the film's first act.It gets really good from there, with 130 comments and counting by everyone from a disgruntled Joseph Stalin to a contrarian Adolf Hitler, who claims, "There is no way that someone so short as Tom Cruise nearly assassinated me. This film is a farce." Look for Hollywood's original blogger Army Archerd to crack the Rolodex and have a fully reported follow up by noon.
- Tom Cruise Dons His Eye Patch and Starts Shooting Again [PeterBart.com]
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Benovite
Posted 4:13 AM 5/6/08
Re: Bryan Singer, "back in form" = "bastardized snoozefest".
Benovite
REPTILE-DYSFUNCTION
Posted 3:52 AM 5/6/08
I only trust Rona Barrett for my H'wood gossip.
REPTILE-DYSFUNCTION
wharfrat
Posted 4:36 AM 5/6/08
That reminds me of my favorite nun joke. . .but, all seriousness aside, I think I'll watch The Young Lions again instead.
wharfrat
Xylo
Posted 4:27 AM 5/6/08
"..several people I trust". What's the current rate for trust in H'wood?
Xylo
Losin_it
Posted 4:54 AM 5/6/08
As you can see from the picture, Tom has that old fashioned, aw shucks boyhood enthusiasm that Americans always look for in their Nazis. This could actually work.
Losin_it
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 4:46 AM 5/6/08
'Cause nothing says "good movie" to me like two pushed release dates and reshoots. All this flick needs is five more credited screenwriters and then we'll know for sure it's awesome!
Sweet Panda Love
Wendy_Kroy
Posted 5:08 AM 5/6/08
@Sweet Panda Love: Another reason to resent Titanic. Previously, every movie with pushed release dates and multiple reshoots reliably went into the toilet. But since Titanic pushed back its release date, went over schedule, and had reshoots - and then made eleventy trillion dollars - now whenever eyebrows are raised by "troubled" productions studio flacks can say, "But, hey, Titanic had re-shoots, too!"
Wendy_Kroy
CourageousCoward
Posted 5:05 AM 5/6/08
@wharfrat: What's your favorite nun joke?! Mine is - Two old nuns are riding their bicycles along the old twisted streets of Vatican City. When they arrive at the church, one nun says to the other, "I've never come this way before." to which the other nun responds, "It's the cobblestones."
CourageousCoward
Tits_LaRue
Posted 5:03 AM 5/6/08
Col. Claus Von Stuffenboys? Say what?
Tits_LaRue
KingHater
Posted 5:01 AM 5/6/08
Nice picture. It's as if The Village People had a seventh.
KingHater
cassidy2099
Posted 6:15 AM 5/6/08
Army Archerd, the original blogger. I had no idea. And I see he has the latest on Julie Andrews.
cassidy2099
Transuranic
Posted 6:29 AM 5/6/08
@REPTILE-DYSFUNCTION: and here I thought Rona Barrett was just an inspirational character in a Chuck Palahniuk book.
Transuranic
misterdirk
Posted 7:35 AM 5/6/08
INT - NIGHT - BAVARIAN BUNKER: Hitler dances to Bob Seger in his undies. Cruise writes on a chalk board 'I am your little U-Boat Commander' over and over and over. Firecrackers - POP - being tossed by the hausfrau astride the mezzanine bannister. HITLER "I tink we shoot move to Brazil. When zis is all ovah." TOM "Howitzer are we supposed to explain that? To Eva." HITLER "Shut up!!! We'll blame it on Rommel! I tear your eyepatch out and shove it up your Panzer." CRUISE, covered with chalk, continues to write.
misterdirk